CABLE BRIEFS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3762, 6 April 1907, Page 3

CABLE BRIEFS.

London, April 4

The Daily Express states that Germany is 'transforming Etuden into a first-class torpedo base.

[Emden is the chief commercial town in the Prussian province of Hanover, a little below the embonchure of the Eras River into Dollart Bay, seventy-seven miles west-north-west of Bremen by rail. A canal runs south from the town to Dollart Bay, two miles distant; but it is navigable at high water only, and then only by ve=sels of 14ft draught. The principal industry is shipbuilding. Population, 14,020.] Perth, April 4.

A cage in the shaft of the Waroonga mine, containing three men named Owens, Andrevle, and Cattavoo, tilted, and jammed one of the men against the timber lining the shaft, with fatal results. The other two men were precipitated to the bottom of the shaft. New'York, April 4. The American and the Canadian Postmasters-General have met in conference, and have agreed to amend the postal convention between the two countries. They will establish a uniform rate of one cent per quarter pound weight for printed matter. London, April 3. The sentence of five months ’ imprisoment passed on Engine-driver Gourlay, driver of the North British express, which collided with another train at Arbroath at the end of December, causing twenty deaths, has been reduced to three months. Rerun, April 3. Attacks on English workers at Hamburg (where dockers were imported from London to take the place of strikers) continue. Many German workmen are firmed with cutlasses and revolvers.